The Bride Came C.O.D., 1941, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Bette Davis

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The Bride Came C.O.D., 1941, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Bette Davis
The Bride Came C.O.D., 1941, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Bette Davis
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You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1941, comedy feature, "The Bride Came C.O.D.".
I am Auctioning off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 100). Please check out some of these titles:
1935, R48,
A Night at the Opera
, The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico), Margaret Dumont,
SOLD
1939 -
Alleghany Uprising
, John Wayne, Claire Trevor
1939 -
Destry Rides Again
, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
1939 -
Gunga Din
, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine
1939 -
The Roaring Twenties
, James Cagney,
Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane
1940 -
Boom Town
, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
1940 -
Brigham Young
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger
1940 -
Charlie Chan in Panama
, Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Victor Sen Yung
,
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1940 -
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
,
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1940 -
His Girl Friday
, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
1940 -
Knute Rockne, All American
, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
1940 -
Santa Fe Trail
,
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
1940 -
Strike Up the Band
, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
1940 -
The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits
, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
,
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1940 -
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
,
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1940 -
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
,
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1940 -
The Return of Frank James
, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper
1940 -
Virginia City
, Errol Flynn, Mariam Hopkins,
Humphrey Bogart,
1941 -
High Sierra
, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
,
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1941 -
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
,
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1941 -
The Bride Came C.O.D.
, James Cagney, Bette Davis, William Frawley
1941 -
The Little Foxes
, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
1941 -
The Great Lie
,
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
1942, R49 -
The Pride of the Yankees
, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
, Teresa Wright
1948 -
Fort Apache
, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
1949 -
Little Women
- June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford
,
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1949 -
The Fighting Kentuckian
,
John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston
1950 -
Fancy Pants
, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot
1950 -
Father of the Bride
, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
1950 -
The Asphalt Jungle
, Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
1950 -
Sunset Boulevard
, William Holden, Gloria Swanson
,
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And Many, Many More Great Titles...
This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format:
Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
Oil heiress Joan (Bette Davis) is going to elope with bandleader Allen whom she's known four days. Out-of-money pilot Steve (James Cagney) is going to fly them to Nevada but makes a deal with her father to deliver her home unmarried. He flies off with her, an apparent kidnaping, but is forced down in the desert. The bandleader arrives with a preacher, but their marriage (in California, not Nevada) is not valid. Pilot Steve will marry her because her father is a millionaire.
Trivia
:
In her later biographies and interviews, Bette Davis derided this movie, sarcastically saying, "it was called a comedy". She would also complain that "all she got out of the film was a derriere full of cactus quills".
Principal photography took place in the Death Valley, California in January 1941. The shoot was problematic as temperatures soared, script problems were unresolved, and one of the stars actually fell into a cactus, with Bette Davis famously having 45 quills pulled out of her rear.
Although the movie was publicized as the first screen pairing of Warner Bros.'s two biggest stars, James Cagney and Bette Davis had actually co-starred in Jimmy the Gent (1934) seven years earlier and had wanted to find another opportunity to work together.
Ann Sheridan was originally scheduled to play the Bette Davis role but was on suspension by Warner Bros.
This was one of Bette Davis's rare forays into comedy, a genre at which she never considered herself especially adept.
Both James Cagney and Bette Davis were interested in changing their movie personas, with Cagney moving away from the gangster-themed roles while Davis had been seen only in serious dramas, and a romantic comedy was the way.
Olivia de Havilland, Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russell, and Ann Sheridan were all originally considered for the Bette Davis role.
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Date:
1941
Genre:
Romance, Comedy
Director(s):
William Keighley
Producer(s):
Hal B. Wallis
Cast
:
James Cagney as Steve Collins
Bette Davis as Joan Winfield
Stuart Erwin as Tommy Keenan
Eugene Pallette as Lucius K. Winfield
Jack Carson as Alan Brice
George Tobias as Peewee Dafoe
William Frawley as Sheriff McGee
Harry Davenport as "Pop" Tolliver
Edward Brophy as Hinkle
Henry Holman as Judge Sobler
Chick Chandler as First Reporter
Douglas Kennedy (credited as Keith Douglas) as Second Reporter
Herbert Anderson as Third Reporter
William Newell as McGee's Pilot
William Hopper as Keenan's Pilot
More Info on James Cagney:
James Cagney was a legendary actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was a huge success in crime movies in the early 1930s (almost always playing a gangster), and that unfortunately typecast him in those roles, but he continually fought against it, and he made several wonderful non-gangster movies as well. Some of his movies include: The
Public Enemy
, Yankee Doodle Dandy (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
White Heat
, Ragtime,
Angels With Dirty Faces
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Roaring Twenties, One, Two, Three,
Love Me Or Leave Me
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) and scores of others! He retired from show business completely in 1961, but he was coaxed out of retirement to appear in Milos Forman's
Ragtime
in 1981. He passed away in 1986 at the age of 86.
More Info on Bette Davis
:
Bette Davis was a legendary actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. She was Warner Bros. leading female star throughout the late 1930s, and she continued as a major star throughout the 1940s, and she had one of her greatest triumphs,
All About Eve
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), in 1950. She refused to retire, and took out a famous ad in Variety seeking work (citing her two Oscars!), and she starred in
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte in the 1960s. Some of her other movies include: Dangerous (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
Jezebel
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Now, Voyager (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Of Human Bondage, Star (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Mr. Skeffington (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
Little Foxes
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Letter (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
Dark Victory
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) and too many others to list! She passed away in 1989 at the age of 81.
More Info on Stuart Erwin:
Stu Erwin (early in his career, he was billed under his real name Stuart Erwin) was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his roles include: Son of Flubber,
Pigskin Parade
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Palooka
(in the title role as Joe Palooka), and TV's "
The Stu Erwin Show
". He passed away in 1967 due to a heart attack, at the age of 64.
More Info on William Frawley:
William Frawley was a television and movie actor from the 1910s to the 1960s. He is best known for his role in "
I Love Lucy
" as Fred Mertz, but he appeared in scores of other movies and TV shows, including "
Miracle on 34th Street
". Frawley passed away in 1966 at the age of 79.
More Info on Eugene Pallette
:
Eugene Pallette was an actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(as Friar Tuck), The Birth of a Nation, My Man Godfrey, and
The Lady Eve
. He passed away in 1954 at the age of 65.
More Info on Jack Carson
:
Jack Carson was a Canadian actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and
Bringing Up Baby
. He passed away in 1963 at the age of 52 from cancer.
More Info on George Tobias
:
George Tobias was a character actor from the 1920s to the 1970s, mostly in Warner Bros. movies. Some of his roles include:
Yankee Doodle Dandy
, Sergeant York, and TV's "
Bewitched
" (as Abner Kravitz). He passed away in 1980 at the age of 78.
More Info on Harry Davenport
:
Harry Davenport was an actor from the 1910s to the 1950s. He is known as a co-founder of the Actors Equity Association which caused a strike by actors resulting in better working conditions (a union). Some of his movies include: The Ox-Bow Incident,
Gone with the Wind
, and
You Can't Take It with You
. He passed away in 1949 at the age of 83.
More Info on Preston Sturges
:
Preston Sturges was a writer and director from the 1920s to the 1950s. Preston Sturges had written plays starting in 1929, but wanted to work in Hollywood, and assisted in writing dialogue in three 1930 movies, but he got his big break in 1931, with when "Strictly Dishonorable" was based on his play of the same name. He became a sort of "script doctor" in the early to mid 1930s, helping "improve" scripts written by others, usually not getting credit on screen for his contributions (one of these movies was "
The Invisible Man
" in 1933). Sturges went on to write many wonderful screenplays in the 1930s, and finally, in 1940, he was allowed to direct "The Great McGinty" (only because he agreed to work at a much lower price if they would let him direct!), and for the next few years, he was the hottest director in Hollywood! Some of his movies include: Easy Living, Christmas in July, The Beautiful Blonde from Basfhul Bend, and Unfaithfully Yours. He passed away in 1959 at the age of 60.
More Info on Hal B. Wallis
:
Harold Brent Wallis (October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing
Casablanca
(1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and
True Grit
(1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as
Humphrey Bogart
, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and
Errol Flynn
. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis,
Elvis Presley
, and John Wayne.
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Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder VG-EX+ (shows some wear)
. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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